A Clinician's Guide
A prominent gynecologist explains how to make the best choices for female reproductive health in this authoritative, easy-to-read guide This book is for every woman who has wished for an unhurried, personal conversation with a sympathetic doctor w...
"Read this book. Its message has never been more important than now as more women grow older and are more in need of rational, biology-based advice and treatment." - from the Foreword by Frederick Naftolin, MD, DPHIL, Yale University School of Medicine, President of the North American Menopause Society, 1998-9 Promo Copy
INTRODUCTION The Women's Health Initiative How Can These Different Interpretations Exist? What Do We Tell Our Patients? PERIMENOPAUSAL MANAGEMENT Introduction Individual Symptoms that are Common to the Perimenopause and the Menopause Contraception and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Special Needs Patients: Women after Hysterectomy MENOPAUSE: DISEASE STATES Osteoporosis Cardiovascular Diseases Colon Cancer Endometrial Cancer Endometrial Hyperplasia Breast Cancer Ovarian Cancer Dementia MENOPAUSE: SPECIFIC MEDICATIONS Estrogen Progesterone and Progestins Testosterone Dehydroepiandrosterone Osteoporosis Medications Raloxifene Alendronate and Risedronate Calcitonin Parathyroid Hormone Bladder Medications Tolterodine Oxybutinin Duloxetine Complementary and Alternative Medications CASE STUDIES